ColorSuckr is a free online service which can extract colors from an image & generate color schemes.
It can be used in 3 ways:
- by mentioning the URL of the image
- via a bookmarklet
- or a Firefox add-on
Once the color schemes are ready, they can be downloaded as Adobe Swatch (.ASE) files or more schemes can be listed from COLOURlovers for any selected color.
ColorSuckr also offers the results in RSS, JSON & XML formats which makes an integration with any application possible.
Requirements: No Requirements
XML Banner Rotator is a free Flash component to display rotating images with style.
It is highly customizable via a XML file & comes with 35+ options including the masking size and speed.
The position of the elements on the screen, number of images & colors can all be controlled.
Besides any HTML page, XML Banner Rotator can be inserted into any FLA file too.
P.S. Download requires free membership.
Last week, a post at WRD had announced the giveaway of 3 Monoslideshow licenses.
The winners of this amazing Flash image-video viewer has been selected and can be found at the bottom of the post.
To Remind:
Monoslideshow is a flexible XML-driven Flash image & video viewer for easily displaying media on any website with style.
It comes with 500+ options that makes the viewer to fit into every design & usage type.
The viewer handles large collections easily with the album-browsing support.
It can be controlled via JavaScript + AS3 APIs and has RSS support which makes it possible to create image slideshows from Flickr, etc.
The Winners:
The winners of this great application are:
- Eric Peacock (comment #66084)
- vedat (comment #65951)
- @digitman (Twitter)
Congratulations to the winners & thanks to everyone for contributing.
Requirements: No Requirements
Monoslideshow, a beautiful & customizable Flash image / video viewer, is giving away 3 licenses (€ 25 value/license) to WebResourcesDepot readers. Details on joining the giveaway can be found at the bottom of the post.
What is Monoslideshow?
It is a flexible XML-driven Flash image & video viewer to easily display them on your website with style.
Whether a professional portfolio or a simple image rotator, Monoslideshow can handle them all.
With over 500 options like:
- dimensions
- custom fonts
- enable/disable startup logo
- background sounds per media
& 10+ professional effects, creating something unique is not difficult. Also, besides the XML file, various settings can be configured via the JavaScript & AS3 API.
The media presented in Monoslideshow can be categorized inside albums & quickly switched between with a "click" for faster browsing.
Another great feature is the RSS support which makes it possible to create image slideshows from Flickr, etc.
How To Win The Free Licenses?
You have 2 options to join the giveaway where you can do both of them to increase the chance of winning:
Winners will be selected randomly on 10 August 2009 (1 week later).
Good luck to all.
Requirements: No Requirements
This is a free Flash image viewer with a magnifying glass created by the talented team at Flabell.
It is activated once the user hovers the image which makes it very functional specially for e-commerce websites presenting products.
It is possible to customize various variables from XML or HTML:
- image path (image of any size)
- the display area size
- the lens size
P.S. Download requires free membership.
dhtmlxScheduler is a free & Ajaxed event calendar script providing a scheduling solution similar to Microsoft Outlook Calendar or Google Calendar.
It is possible to create new events with a double-click & created events can be drag’n dropped, resized (for updating the times), updated or deleted with ease, fully Ajaxed.
The scheduler can present the calendar as day, week or month views & data can be loaded in XML or iCal formats.
With the help of the detailed documentation, it is possible to use any server-side scripting language to make dhtmlxScheduler fit any application.
Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
Flabell is presenting another handy resource for creating Flash-XML based survey with multiple questions.
An unlimited number of questions & a variable number of answers can be added by simply editing the XML file.
When users select an answer, they can pass to the next question & all answers are stored inside the XML file for visualizing them later (not included within the code).
P.S. Download requires a free membership.
Requirements: No Requirements
Flabell is presenting a free Flash-XML slideshow which can be customized with ease.
Images presented are displayed with a blur effect & the color of the navigation bar can change on every image (using the colors of that image can be a good idea – set manually in the XML file).
For every image, you can also define:
- URLs, when they are clicked
target to be _blank or not- transparency of the navigation bar
The slideshow comes with the source file (.FLA) & in order to download it, a free membership is required.
XML Flash Voting Poll is a free component for creating nice looking Flash-based polls.
It is built with AS3 & supports one active poll with an unlimited number of answers.
Many variables can be controlled in the XML files like:
- the question’s height, text, color, size
- background colors used
- distances between items
- messages displayed after voting & more
The download package includes images (.AI & .PDF) & fonts used.
P.S. Free membership is required for downloading the component.
This is a very flexible Flash full-text-search component that supports multiple images and texts.
All aspects of it can be customized via XML files, including the images, texts, colors, sizes and more.
The component supports unlimited text / images & it can resize the height depending on the number of items.
For skinning it, no Flash experience is needed as everything is done by updating the XML files (colors, speed of the effects, etc.).
The download package comes with all the source code including FLA files, PSDs & fonts used.
Requirements: No Requirements
